10 Seterah Ebrahimi and Carrie Etter

12.5 Announcement

Hello everyone. As is said in the announcement, I have been quite unwell over the last few weeks, so am going to take a rest and go on hiatus until the new year.

Thank you so much for all your support so far, I am grateful to each and every one of you.

Have a great December and I will see you all in January.

Make good choices, write great poetry.

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12 Hannah Edge Collection Release Special!

Welcome to the twelfth episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have a Hannah Edge special on the show and I shall be reading from her upcoming collection Those Days, These Days along with a bit of Anne Sexton.

You can preorder Hannah's ebook here and I will update these show notes when the paperback is available for preorder too!

Find Hannah at

observeandmuse_ehjee on Insta

@edge_hannah on twitter

We are at

Twitter: @dickensandquips

Instagram: @dickensandquips

Email: [email protected]

Prompt for this week is "Football" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.

11 Connor Sansby and Hannah Lowe

Welcome to the eleventh episode of Dickens and Quips!

It is a bumper episode this week with some juicy language but it is well worth listening to us go down some amazing poetry rabbit holes.

This week we have Whisky and Beards own Connor Sansby on the show and I shall be reading from Chick by Hannah Lowe

Find Connor at Connor Sansby Wordstuff on Facebook

@whiskybeards on Insta

@whiskybeards on Twitter

Whisky and Beards Publishing on Facebook

Hannah Lowe can be found here

And on twitter @hannahlowepoet

We are at

Twitter: @dickensandquips

Instagram: @dickensandquips

Email: [email protected]

Prompt for this week is "all bears are gud boisl" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.

Featured collections:

Chick by Hannah Lowe

So You Want To Be a Writer by Charles Bukowski

10 Seterah Ebrahimi and Carrie Etter

Welcome to the tenth episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have Seterah Ebrahimi on the show and I shall be reading from Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter

You can buy Seterah's pamphlet In My Arms here

You can buy Carrie Etter's Imagined Sons here

Carrie Etter can be found here twitter.com/carrie_etter

We are at

Twitter: @dickensandquips

Instagram: @dickensandquips

Email: [email protected]

Prompt for this week is "I wait and wonder" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.

Featured collections/poems:

Imagined Sons by Carrie Etter

Skeleton by Rosemary McLeish

Line that makes you go OOOOOH!

Imagined Sons 29: The Friend (Part 4)

“I press my lips to each letter of his name”

09 Dervla O'Brien and Joe Thomas

Welcome to the ninth episode of Dickens and Quips!

This week we have Dervla O'Brien on the show and I shall be reading from Cake, Liberty and Other Inexplicable Phenomena by Joe Thomas

Find Dervla at

DervlaOBrien on Insta

DervlaOBrien on Twitter

The festival she was talking about is accepting proposals here

Joe Thomas can be found @Joefishthomas on twitter and insta and Joe Thomas Writer on Facebook

You can buy his book Here

We are at

Twitter: @dickensandquips

Instagram: @dickensandquips

Email: [email protected]

Prompt for this week is "sticky floors" and you don't have to be an established poet to submit a poem.

Thank you to Roger Waldron for your poem this week.

Invite

inviting me round

to talk overyour

world beating veggie lasagna

you apologise for the kitchen

carefuldon’t stick to the floor

we talk about

being married

that B&B in Scarborough

where they askedif we wanted

dessertwhich turned out

to be Pears in sticky Rice Pudding

you asked

if we’d ever be a pair

againyou asked if I would like

puddingaftersetc

I declined all 3careful not to stick

to your floorwondering

what makesyou think like that

Featured poets:

Paige Lewis

Sarah Kay